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It wasn't just that Scott Brown announced he was not running in the special US Senate election — it was that it quickly became evident that he was not handing the job off to another Republican. By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | February 15, 2013

Variations of "nightmarish" and "psychedelic" come up repeatedly as Matt Oates describes his band's work — which makes sense, given that Phantom Glue trace their roots back to Slayer, the Jesus Lizard, and cult post-hardcore act KARP. Cellars by Starlight By REYAN ALI | January 25, 2013

Over six decades, Neil Young's musical expression has expanded beyond the rock and roll of his nascent years and the folk-rock that brought him his initial burst of renown. By ANDREW GRAHAM | November 02, 2012

Every once in a while the city needs a show like "Elsewhere," the round-up of 17 local artists organized by Flux.Boston blogger Liz Devlin, to get a snapshot of the art being produced here. By GREG COOK | October 12, 2012

It's always annoying when a band is touted as "the next big thing," especially when they've been around pumping out great stuff for years and then suddenly everyone is talking about them like the stork dropped them off that morning — see Bon Iver winninBy MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | October 05, 2012

For most Bostonians of a certain age, Converge's Jane Doe (2001) is always going to be "that" record. But sentimentality aside, the metal/hardcore quartet's latest, All We Love We Leave Behind — out Tuesday on Epitaph — bangs right up against it. By JANSSEN MCCORMICK | October 05, 2012

Earthquake Party, Fat Creeps, RIBS and Viva Viva perform live during night one of the WFNX Boston Accents Funeral Party | Monday, July 23, 2012 at Great Scott Monday, July 23, 2012 | Great Scott By MICK MURRAY | July 27, 2012

Brown University has already taken its disgraced alumnus Joe Paterno's name off an award doled out every year to the school's outstanding male freshman athlete. But there is still a question about whether Coach Paterno should be ejected from the Brown A Brown hall of shame By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | July 27, 2012

When Passion Pit were conceived five years ago out of an Emerson College dorm, the result of a Valentine's Day gift of love songs Michael Angelakos crafted for his then-girlfriend, electro-pop really hadn't yet taken hold of popular alternative music. Getting ’Pitted By MICHAEL MAROTTA | June 29, 2012

It has become almost second nature for area restaurants to use local ingredients and to establish working relationships with nearby farmers and fishermen. Pushing the proximity limit By AMY ANDERSON | June 22, 2012

The idea of education reform has become so much of a universal social imperative that even hard-nosed liberals mindlessly dance to its alluring tune without considering the consequences of their gallivanting. The price of change By CHRIS FARAONE AND MATT MCQUAID | June 16, 2012

Online progressive activists have grown and developed to the point where they are ready to play critical roles in 2012 elections all over the country. Rallying the troops By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | June 01, 2012

Like all good Vo Dilunduhs, Phillipe and Jorge used our unaffiliated voter status to become "Republicans for a day," cast our ballots in the GOP primary, and then switch back to being independents immediately afterward. Poll dances By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | April 27, 2012

Bostonians have celebrated the city's rebirth as a shooting location for filmmakers. Had they endured Valerie Weiss's locally made Losing Control , I suspect most would welcome another molasses disaster. Valerie Weiss's locally made film By MILES HOWARD | April 06, 2012

Director and Holliston native Adam Green ( Frozen, Hatchet ) knows a thing or two about what it's like to be stuck in your hometown post-college, working a dead-end job, and pining for the high school girl of your dreams. Green parlayed all that angst i Native son By ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | March 30, 2012

Adaptations are always difficult to pull off, but this one had the extra baggage of being based on a lyrical book with chapter titles like "The Piss of God," and a tendency to jump back and forth through time as Flynn unpacks his life story. Father complex By THOMAS PAGE MCBEE | March 09, 2012

The debut record from Grimes, an alias of the Montreal-based Boucher, kicks off the peculiarity parade by presenting song titles steeped in cutesy affectation. Arbutus (2012) By REYAN ALI | February 03, 2012

With Be the Void , their sonically raw sixth album, these Philly psych-pop oddballs have pulled a fussy, self-conscious about-face, indulging in their weirdest ideas in years. Anti- (2012) By RYAN REED | February 03, 2012